Hope, Change and The Long Road: One Year Later
It's been exactly one year since Barack Obama was elected, and it's becoming increasingly clear that the president hasn't fixed the whole world yet. Then again, he never promised such a thing.
It's been exactly one year since Barack Obama was elected, and it's becoming increasingly clear that the president hasn't fixed the whole world yet. Then again, he never promised such a thing.
Bill Maher | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics
If Obama had really charged in there riding the forceful energy of the historic election, there really could have been an historic "first hundred days." Instead of what happened, which is the Obamas got a dog.
AFP | Stephen Collinson | Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics
The tale of the turbulent year since Barack Obama's historic election win is told by his evolving political theme: once he promised "Change We Can Bel...
Jeremy Bird | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics
We knew change was not going to come easy. It never has. But, it is coming. I can feel it in the air here in Milwaukee.
Mark Klempner | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics
It's not that I object to critical thinking. We need it. Yet, while we're reminding Obama of his promises and scrutinizing him on his decisions, we need to stand with him.
Mike Lux | Posted 08.29.2009 | Politics
One thing is absolutely clear from what has happened over the last week in the health care debate: fundamental change has not come to Washington, D.C.
John W. Whitehead | Posted 08.20.2009 | Politics
Americans need a president who understands the urgency of their situation and reflects that sobriety -- not one who's enjoying a jet-setting lifestyle at taxpayer expense.
John L. Esposito | Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics
If Obama doesn't deliver significantly, disillusionment and anti-Americanism will increase among the very people who were euphoric at his election.
Lance Simmens | Posted 06.20.2009 | Green
It is all too easy to fall into the trap of reciting dire and dour statistics to illuminate just how serious this crisis is. It is far more difficult to illustrate the interconnectivity of issues and events.
Alan Kennedy-Shaffer | Posted 04.25.2009 | Politics
The Obama Revolution is more than a revolution of policy proposals, campaign decisions, and lofty rhetoric. It is a revolution in the way we think about ourselves and act on our convictions.
Kathleen Reardon | Posted 03.21.2009 | Politics
The important thing is to be sure that while we're endeavoring to achieve universal health care, we don't do so only or largely on the backs of ill people.
Michael Lutin | Posted 03.21.2009 | Living
How long, how many bumps, crashes, scrapes and whacks, will it take before we actually see that the change that is actually happening is not the change that even Obama expected?
Dr. Judith Rich | Posted 03.14.2009 | Living
Shift Happens! Change, it turns out, is not a tidy process. Anyone who's ever been through a divorce or quit their job or perhaps more commonly n...
Jason Pollock | Posted 03.08.2009 | Politics
You have forever changed what it means to be the President of the United States and I'm so grateful and happy for your existence.
David Sirota | Posted 02.23.2009 | Politics
I think we're excited at the prospect of change, but fear being fooled by mere hope. After all, those two concepts -- hope and change -- are not the same thing.
Kathleen Reardon | Posted 02.22.2009 | Politics
Smart power in the service of the robust diplomacy Clinton intends to implement is about listening, learning what the other side truly wants and needs rather than reliance on assumptions.
Michelle Cote | Posted 02.21.2009 | Living
After this week's celebrations end, we will have to follow Dr. King's example and reinvest our energy and optimism into efforts whose benefits many not be fully seen for many years to come.
Kevin Coval | Posted 02.20.2009 | Chicago
Today is a day to dream immensely and get ready for the work that is to come.
Jack Healey | Posted 02.15.2009 | Living
We miss Dr Martin Luther King, Jr each day. His day, our day, asks each of us to stand up for decency and justice and non violence in our time, in our community, in our family, and in our world.
Shuja Nawaz | Posted 02.14.2009 | Politics
Expectations for Obama are high and no where more than in the Muslim World that has seen the past decade marked by a threatened Clash of Civilizations between it and the West.
Rick Siegel | Posted 02.13.2009 | Politics
Now we can and must demand better ethical standards from our bankers, financial advisors, corporate and political leaders.
Lou Weisbach | Posted 02.12.2009 | Politics
There must be a place in the NIH where the discovery of knowledge is focused on preventing or curing the diseases of our loved ones.
Chicago Sun-Times | Dave Hoekstra | Posted 02.11.2009 | Chicago
President-elect Barack Obama paid homage to Chicago soul in his Grant Park acceptance speech. He riffed on Wendell Phillips High graduate Sam Cooke by...
Frank Schaeffer | Posted 02.06.2009 | Politics
This President has the backing of the frightened majority of Americans. We are ready to do whatever it takes to help our new President do whatever it takes to save us.
Dr. Susan Corso | Posted 01.29.2009 | Living
There is no common definition of peace. Instead, it means different things at different times to different people. True peace is a dynamic way of being in the world wherein all are blessed.
Bob Cesca | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics